Robert Taylor(85) who was instrumental in creating the internet and the modern computer pioneer has died on Thursday at his home in San Francisco with Parkinson’s disease.
Nearly 58 years ago, Robert Taylor helped lay the foundations for internet which we are using today. After many trials on the night of Oct. 29, 1969, he sent an electronic message from a computer to another computer at the Stanford Research Institute.Taylor’s engineering team also helped to develop the ethernet and word processing program which we are calling today Microsoft Word.
In 1999, Robert Taylor was awarded the National Medal of Technology and Innovation.
In 2004, he and his team were awarded the Draper prize from the National Academy of Engineering
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